never mind, i found it. -----Original Message----- From: Rowe, Sean D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 8:40 AM To: Janek Schleicher; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Faster way to go to a line in a file
Where can I find the Tie module on cpan? I'm not sure where to look for. My perl distribution doesn't have it loaded, and my system administrator is gone. Sean -----Original Message----- From: Janek Schleicher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 27, 2002 6:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Faster way to go to a line in a file Sean D. Rowe wrote at Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:54:49 +0200: > Right now, to get to a certain line number, I will open the file, set a for > loop to get a line until line number is reached, and then quit. Is there a > faster way? > > ex: for (my $i = 1; $i <= $LineNumber; $i++) > { > $Line = $FileHandle->getline; > } I don't know whether there's a faster way, but there's simpler way: use Tie::File; tie my @line, 'Tie::File', $fname; my $nth_line = $line[$n]; Greetings, Janek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
